Under a series of programs organized throughout the year to create awareness among the general public and museum workers, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal conducted a lecture of Shyam Benegal, a renowned director and screenwriter, focused on constitution making.

The 57-minute film, ‘Constitution Contact Language Hindi or Hindustani'’was directed online / via Facebook.

After watching the film, The program coordinator Doctor Soma Kiro told that,In this film, the Constituent Assembly reached the agreement that ‘the official language of India will be Hindi (Devanagari script) but all the Government work (court and all other services) will be done in English till 15 years after the constitution comes into force. In 1963, Nehru gave direction to the Official Language Act, under which he pointed out that since 1965 all kinds of communication will be officially done in Hindi and English can be used as a subsidiary language.In this regard, the director of the museum, Praveen Kumar Mishra further explained that On 26 January 1965, the then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri decided to declare Hindi as the official language and made it clear on All India Radio in a message to the nation that English can be used till then.

As long as the public wants At the same time, removing the fear of non-Hindi speakers, he assured that every State can decide on its own that in which language it wants to do official work or communication, it can be a regional language or English can also be a central level.

But along with Hindi, English will also be the main language of functioning and communication. After strong opposition, Hindi got the status of the official language of India but continued to get the status of ‘national language’, no one has the status of the national language in the Indian Constitution, it has been clarified by the Department of Official Language that Hindi As well as English, it can also be used for work in Parliament and Center.

Apart from this, the States have the right to decide their own language under the legislature, as a result of which 22 languages have official status in India, including English and Hindi, on different occasions it has been clarified by the court that all these languages With equal status and no language more or less than anyone, this opportunity was seen by a large number of 270 people through Youtube.